Allison B's List: Science Project

• • Boat-billed Heron eats fish and shrimp
    
• • abiotic factors-
    water
• • biotic factors-
    perennials (grass)
    forbs (flowers)
    bushes but no trees
• • riparian marshes- take in excess water and release water to prevent floods or droughts
    
• • American Bittern eats fish, crabs, snakes, frogs, insects and small mammals
• • black winged stilt eat insects, aquatic animals
    
• • Cape Lopez Lyretail eats small invertebrates
    
• • Common snipe eats larvae, also insects, crustaceans
• • Dwarf Siren eats small aquatic invertibrates
    
• • Gold spiny reed frog eats insects
• • siamese fightingfish eats small invertebrates
• • South American Lungfish eat Fish
• • Two-toed Amphiuma eats Crustaceans
• • Walking catfish eats fish, aquatic invertebrates
• water
• water
• They are home to yellow-headed and red-winged blackbirds, herons, egrets, rails, bitterns, moorhens, ducks and geese
• Muskrats are central to many marshes, keeping aggressive plants in check and crafting bird protection by carving out habitat. Minks and otters frequent wetlands. Raccoons, opossums, even moose can be found foraging around marshes, particularly when water levels drop. Marshes also host frogs, turtles, and snakes, salamanders, and an immense variety of insects, including aquatic, flying, and grazing insects. 
• Marshes that occur along rivers are called riparian marshes

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• • moist and humid
• • pond lilies
    cattails
    sedges
    tamarack
    black spruce
    cypress
    gum
    

• • vegetation helps preserve the area- prevents flooding. fish are atracted to good food sources and shelter, and since there are so many fish a lot of birds live there

  • biotic:
    turtles
    snakes
    salamanders
    insects
    herons
    muskrats
    opossums
    vegetation
    amphibians
    fish
    birds